[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.98 CD install , CD Not Found .

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 14:01 -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello Spot ,
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:26 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> I have an SS20 with two processors.  The 2.99 image boots, and loads
> >> the esp driver.  The installer then searches for a CD to install  from
> >> and fails, spitting my CD out.
> >>
> >> Did any one manage to get to the bottom of this?
> >
> > So... this is almost certainly a failure of the esp driver on sparc32.
> >
> > At some point, I'll try to debug this on my sparc32 systems, but
> > admittedly, its low on my priority list.
>  	How easy/hard would it be to create a mini-cd image with just the 
> necessary items to get to the point of 'loading esp driver' but without 
> the window fluff ?  Or might there be a boot: option to use 'pure' ascii ?
>  	If we could see the error(s) (if any) .  seeing them might make it very 
> easy to debug .

Yeah, unfortunately, none of that code exists, and it isn't simple to
put together.

What I would do in this case is get 2.98 (or if that fails, 2.0)
installed, update everything to corona, then try to reboot into the
corona kernel. It should fail exactly the same way as it does in
anaconda, and we'd get more debugging, and be able to pass module
options to esp in a far simpler manner.

~spot